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Richard Sherman was mic'd up before Trent Williams spat

jj Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman played the Washington Redskins last Sunday with all the class you might expect from a guy who taunted Tom Brady in person and via Photoshop. He of "U MAD BRO?"

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Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman played the Washington Redskins last Sunday with all the class you might expect from a guy who taunted Tom Brady in person and via Photoshop.

He of "U MAD BRO?" fame waved goodbye to Redskins fans leaving the stadium during the game, encouraging them to beat the traffic. Later, he may have revealed a years-old betrayal of his college coach and alma mater. And he angered Trent Williams enough to get mushed in the face when everybody else was shaking hands.

We know all of this, and what exactly Sherman said to receive said face-mush, because of Q13 Fox in Seattle, which mic'd up Sherman for the Seahawks' wild-card victory at FedEx Field.

As the video shows, Sherman did start out the postgame routine amicably, telling Redskins lineman Kedric Golston, "Hell of a game, boy. Way to work out there." Then Williams approaches, all 6-foot-5, 325 pounds of him, with his arms locked at his sides and helmet still on.

Sherman says, "What you gon' do boy?"

Williams: "I'm gonna punch you in yo' God damn face."

Sherman: "Go on and do it then, boy."

So Williams hits him. Sherman backs away laughing with his hands raised, then London Fletcher and Robert Griffin III step in.

They later squashed the beef, but still the most interesting part of the video is Sherman's postgame embrace with Robert Griffin III, who injured his knee in the loss but still joined in the midfield niceties.

Sherman tells him: "You've been having a hell of a year. I've been proud of you since you spurned us. Hey, I didn't want to tell nobody what I told you. But I didn't want you to go down that path. I'm proud of you, boy."

Spurned who? What path?

Well, the Washington Post points out that current 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh once recruited Griffin to play for Stanford, where Sherman was a wide receiver and Griffin presumably would have competed with Andrew Luck. Griffin instead chose to attend Baylor, where he won a Heisman Trophy.